Friday Faves – The Cupcake Project makes Hefeweizen Cupcakes

How is everyone doing this week? Today’s featured Friday Favs blogger is one of the first blogs I ever started following. When I started reading blogs in the summer of 2007, I was obsessed with cupcakes. So I searched out any cupcake blog I could find. Stef’s blog, The Cupcake Project has a great concept. She agreed to bake cupcakes for some friend’s wedding. So she set out to find the perfect cupcakes by baking a new recipe for them to taste test each week. They chose their three favorites and Stef made them for the wedding. Since then she’s done three more wedding projects and whips up some really whacky flavored cupcakes.

I’m in puppy love with my Hefeweizen cupcakes. Maybe it’s because I’ve been on a quest to find the Ultimate Vanilla Cupcake and the past 15 or so cupcake recipes I’ve made have been some variety of vanilla, or maybe these Hefeweizen cupcakes really are just that good. If you are a beer fan (I’m talking about the kind of person who drinks beer for the taste, not chugs for the buzz), and you like wheat beer, you will truly appreciate this cupcake. With beer in both the cupcake and the glaze, these cupcakes have a noticeable beer flavor. The cupcakes also contain a touch of lemon as though you squeezed some into your bottle.

From time to time I play a game on the Cupcake Project Facebook Page called Cupcake Roulette. I let 38 food bloggers grab a spot on a virtual roulette wheel. I promise to make something inspired by whatever blog I randomly draw and I ask the blogger to do the same with mine. I decided to make this guest blog post a Cupcake Roulette post so that you would have the opportunity to be introduced not only to my blog but also to another fun blog!

Although Paige used Corona, I wanted to go local. I’m from St. Louis, Missouri and we are lucky to have a wealth of amazing microbreweries here. I decided to opt for a Hefeweizen from Schafly. Make the cupcakes with Corona (like Paige did) or use your favorite light, summer beer (I recommend a wheat beer) from a local brewery.

The only other change that I made to Paige’s recipe was to up the amount of beer and decrease the amount of lemon. I find that lemon overpowers everything else and I really wanted the beer to shine.

Paige topped her Corona cupcakes with a buttercream. Although it’s probably sacrilegious, I’m a cupcake baker who hates buttercream. So, I topped mine with a beer glaze. I used a recipe that I found on tuttifoodie by Jennifer Burke for a beer glaze made with malt powder. I can’t imagine topping these cupcakes with anything else. The glaze enhances the beer cupcakes without overwhelming them. The only changes that I made to Jennifer’s recipe were to switch the type of beer and to remove the lemon. As I noted above, I didn’t want an overpowering lemon flavor.

Warning: The glaze is a bit runny – just think of it as overflowing beer foam!

Directions:

For the Cupcakes:
In a medium-sized mixing bowl, whip egg whites until soft peaks form.
Gradually mix in the sugar.
Mix in baking powder, baking soda, vegetable oil, zest, and milk.
Mix in half of the flour.
Mix in the beer.
Mix in the other half of the flour.
Fill cupcake liners 3/4 full.
Bake at 350 F for 15 minutes or until cupcakes bounce back when lightly touched.

For the Beer Glaze:
In a double boiler, combine all the ingredients except for the butter and sugar.
Melt the mixture, stirring continuously until it's thick - about 12 minutes.
Jennifer then strained the mixture to remove lumps. I skipped this step because I'm a lazy baker and not a perfectionist. You do what fits your baking personality.
Cool completely.
In a medium-sized mixing bowl, mix the cooled malt mixture with the butter.
Mix in the powdered sugar. The end result should be a thick and sticky glaze.
Spread onto cooled cupcakes.

This looks great! How strong is the Hefeweizen laste in the actual cupcake without glaze? I’m making a cake for a brewery with a Hef that just won an award and was going to go for a flavored crusted buttercream to draw on instead of glaze and just wondering the taste of the cake. Thank you and love your site!

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